Hillary Clinton clinches Presidential nomination, creates history

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday created history by being the first woman from a major political party in the US to clinch the presidential nomination.

She earned this feat by winning the California, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota primaries, but her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders remained defiant.

“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone, the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee,” Clinton, 68, told her supporters at her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

US President Barack Obama congratulated Clinton for securing the 2,383 delegates necessary to clinch the Democratic party’s presidential nominee.

Obama called both Clinton and her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders to applaud them for “running inspiring campaigns that energised Democrats.” The President will meet Sanders at the White House tomorrow at the Vermont senator’s request, the statement said.

Clinton now has 2,497 delegates in her kitty while Sanders has 1,663 delegates.